Experiments using animals
Sir,—Last Sunday afternoon, during the Festival of Enlightenment, I saw human faces, grinning as they watched bewildered mice getting intoxicated with alcohol forcibly administered, then cut open to see what had happened to their livers; dazed, suffering monkeys strapped and otherwise restrained while put through car-crash tests; and conscious cats with cannulas inserted into their skulls, to check’nervous reactions. These slides, shown by .the Christchurch Coordinator of the New Zealand , Anti-Vivisection Society, dem-
onstrated the gruesome callousness' and hard-heartedness “achieved” by the experimenters. And to what end? Even if these researchers are | '/incapable of accepting that the! causes arid results of alcoholism and car crashes are selfinduced, there surely is no excuse for inflicting such agony on animals which had nothing to do with the causes of our ills, arid have’no way of knowing why they are made to suffer so. The eventual abolition of these senseless experiments is essential.—Yours, etc., I NOELLE MILANOVICH. March 24, 1981.
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